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Editorial

In February 2018, Kay Goldsworthy was ordained Archbishop of Perth, and became the world’s first female archbishop in the Anglican Communion. In March, Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned by the Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury; the was the first time a chemical weapon has been used in Europe since the WWII. In April, Kim Jong-un became the first North Korean leader to cross the Demilitarized Zone since its creation in 1953. His meeting with Donald Trump in June, was the first time in history a US president met a North Korean head of state. It was also in June that women in Saudi Arabia were for the first time permitted to drive. Distressingly, in August, the strongest sea ice in the Arctic was observed to be breaking up for the first time.

Situated at the crossroads of different cultures, religions and civilizations, Azerbaijan is traditionally a multinational, multicultural and multilingual country. The territory of modern Azerbaijan...